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Young residents pose for a photograph on a street in the Clifton neighborhood of Staten Island in New York on October 25, 2014. The area is home to a community known as "Little Liberia" — it has the largest concentration of Liberians outside of Africa.

A new hotline fights Ebola-related stigma against African immigrants

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Ebola is still a scary, hot-button issue in the United States, and some Africans immigrants say they’re being harrassed and discriminated against because of those fears. Now a web- and phone-based hotline is hoping to collect those stories and use them to fight back against unwarranted attacks.

Liberian American Shoana Solomon started a campaign called "I am a Liberian, not a virus," to combat the stigma of Ebola.

The ‘I am Liberian, not a virus’ campaign confronts the stigma of Ebola

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